The LA Times deploys its considerable experience in the field of celebrity journalism to offer up the ultimate account of Chuck Norris' political impact.
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The Norris Factor
02 Dec 2007 09:31 am
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I endorsed Obama. Therefore, I'm responsible for his improving numbers, or what statisticians are calling the Aleks Ascension.
And also, when I tried to sell my soul, the Devil apologized and said he couldn't afford it.
Bored with shilling for the Total Gym, Chuck?
Well, I for one repeat my claim that the Huckabee-Chuck Norris TV spot was absolutely great!
And since modern mainstream political journalism believes that candidates who run good campaigns and produce good TV spots are prima facie the most qualified people to run our country, why shouldn't that give a huge boost to Huckabee's coverage?
Huckabee is the GOP's worst nightmare. He is the establishments worst nightmare. An absolute total beltway outsider. Far far more outsider than Clinton ever was. Clinton was wired into the Democratic Party elite for years. Huckabee a professional Christian.
Huckabee to my knowledge has not one single establishment insider on board. No foreign policy wonks or worse, no Wall Street money men on board.
The guy is the ultimate unknown unknown. A potential loose cannon. I am hoping he wins the early ones. It will be entertaining to watch just how vicious they will have to get to destroy Huckabee. He will be destroyed if necessary.
On the other hand he might make a pretty good sacrificial lamb. Doing the least harm to the insiders.
Hillary is the insiders insider. More than perfectly acceptable if not preferable to the monied corporate elites especially the financial side. Just as acceptable to the older now shoved aside foreign policy beltway establishment. The latter is the best we can hope for. The former is a disaster that very few appreciate.
1) I don't think you guys appreciate just what a hardass Chuck Norris is.
In one of his early karate movies, a bad guy tried to run Chuck Norris over with a car. Instead of diving to the side like mere mortals do , Chuck Norris ran TOWARD the oncoming car, leaped 8 feet into the air and dropped-Kicked the assailant THROUGH the windshield at around 40 MPH. Assailant died from the impact of course. Let's see that little pussy Kiefer Sutherland (24) pull that off.
2) Real martial arts people burst out laughing if you mention Norris, of course. But this is , after all, Hollywood. Actually, somewhere in the film industry pretty far outside Hollywood.
Omigod. I can't believe that I just admitted that I have watched Chuck Norris movies. Is there any way to yank posts, Matthew?
Here it is -- from the 1970s movie, Good Guys Wear Black:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnrrK9Fqkw
Notice how, Even back then, Chuck Norris was observing the pacifist teaching of evangelical Christianity.
Chuck Norris did not kill the villain by kicking him in the heart at 40 MPH --rather, the villain foolishly CHOSE to impale himself on Norris's Cowboy boot at 40 MPH.
Well, clearly the real wonderment here is an age where a person can recall a moment from a movie, and in a few minutes post that scene on the internet. Move over, Proust, there's a new kid on the block. Our memories have new tricks to play on us.
Or perhaps the wonderment is that in a world where science has made such play possible, there are still people who believe the world was created in seven days. We have met the most regressed inbred ignorant tribal society on earth- and it is us.
Well, I think I heard that someone actually posted a (condensed) video clip showing the Earth's seven-day creation, so we've now conclusively proven the inerrant Truth of the Bible.
It's always nice when we can use modern technology to resolve these long-standing disputes...
Comments closed December 16, 2007.
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Heads in the Sand
Matthew,
That article would be an interesting analysis, were it true. Huckabee's web traffic has long (and long before Norris) been far higher than all the candidates save Ron Paul; he surpassed Clinton and Obama a few weeks ago, and has been building an online network long before Norris came along. They are the most comfortable with distributed power of any campaign (save Paul's). So too have his polls been rising, consistently, long before Chuck Norris.
Z
Posted by Zephyr teachout | December 2, 2007 10:49 AM